Resources
Throughout our history of working to protect local control we have captured a wealth of materials relating to preemption and local control. On this page you have easy access to all of these documents, including fact sheets and reports, grassroots advocacy material, sample media items and tobacco industry documents.
This page will continuously be updated, so please refer to it often in your fight to protect local control.
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Protecting Local Control
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Here you will find information that details the nuts and bolts of preemption, from what preemption is to how to recognize it to why the tobacco industry pushes for it.
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A major purpose of this website is to equip coalitions with the tools needed to either repeal preemption or to protect local control. Here you will find sample campaign materials, including action alerts, phone scripts, letters to legislators and petitions. You will also find case studies and materials from communities who have worked to repeal preemption or have fought to protect local control.
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Every preemption campaign must have a successful communications plan. These materials will help you develop that plan for both earned (free, opportunistic media) and paid (newspaper, radio, television advertising) media.
Earned Media
City to hear clean-air resolution 11/11/2003 Sample Media Alert 9/22/2003 Sample Press Release 9/22/2003 Paid Media
Sample Public Relations Plan 9/12/2003 Sample Radio Ad 9/22/2003 Smoke-Free Places: What's wrong with this picture? 6/21/2005 Thank You Georgia Legislature 7/21/2005 Who's controlling the air you breathe? 3/3/2004
Restoring Local Control
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Here you will find information that details the nuts and bolts of preemption, from what preemption is to how to recognize it to why the tobacco industry pushes for it.
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A major purpose of this website is to equip coalitions with the tools needed to either repeal preemption or to protect local control. Here you will find sample campaign materials, including action alerts, phone scripts, letters to legislators and petitions. You will also find case studies and materials from communities who have worked to repeal preemption or have fought to protect local control.
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Every preemption campaign must have a successful communications plan. These materials will help you develop that plan for both earned (free, opportunistic media) and paid (newspaper, radio, television advertising) media.
Earned Media
Paid Media
Thank you Louisiana Legislature 3/3/2004 Louisiana Push-Card: Back Page 12/16/2003 Louisiana Push-Card: Front Page 12/16/2003 Restore: Sample Direct Mail Piece 8/29/2003 Oklahoma restore local control TV ad 2/3/2012
Additional Resources
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Why take our word for it? These documents come straight from the tobacco industry and detail both general and state-specific strategies and rationales for the implementation of preemption.
